RE: [IPp] toddlers
My son Will is 3 and has been pumping for over 2 yrs. I have never told him
he couldn't touch or play with his pump. I do tell him to be gentle with
it, and to be gentle with his tube so that we don't have to change his site.
AFAIC it is a part of him and he is entitled to look at it and push buttons.
We explain that it gives him medicine, we need it, and if it got broken we'd
have to have shots instead. I consider the risk of him bolusing himself
small enough that it's not worth it to make his pump, which is always
attached to him, a forbidden thing. It just doesn't feel right to me.
Things that are forbidden become more interesting, so we just let him do as
he likes pretty much and hope that if he's going to be too rough with it, or
somehow bolus himself, he'll do it in front of us.
Best wishes,
Colleen
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